# Shards that were relocated still appear on disk!

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/shards-that-were-relocated-still-appear-on-disk/23639>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [May 18, 2015, 6:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/shards-that-were-relocated-still-appear-on-disk/23639 "2015-05-18T06:35:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![Nir\_Alfasi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/nir_alfasi/32/705_2.png) [@Nir\_Alfasi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Nir_Alfasi)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2015, 6:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/shards-that-were-relocated-still-appear-on-disk/23639/1 "2015-05-18T06:35:13Z")

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Hi,

Due to high disk usage I ran a curl command to relocate a couple of shards  
to other nodes, the command looks like:

curl -XPOST 'localhost:7104/\_cluster/reroute' -d '{"commands" : [ {"move"  
:{"index" : "playback\_content\_runtime\_data20150516", "shard" : 0,  
"from\_node": "us-west-2a.i-f782f801", "to\_node" :  
"us-west-2b.i-4d962dba"}}]}'

After the command ran successfully (and kopf plugin even showed that the  
shards "disappeared" on the source node and "appeared" on the target node)  
I noticed that the disk usage on the source node is still high. Checking  
further showed that under /mnt/data/es/es\_test/nodes/0/indices I can still  
see indices that were relocated. Further, I can also see indices that Kopf  
plugin doesn't display!

Any ideas?

Thanks,  
Nir

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**Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 12:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/shards-that-were-relocated-still-appear-on-disk/23639/2 "2017-07-06T00:13:36Z")

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